(ANSA) - MILAN, AUGUST 09 - "I'm sorry that the Sardinians are offended. I have nothing against Barbagia. But the reactions to my proposal to put illegal immigrants in an undeveloped area show that nobody wants them": loha the mayor of Como Alessandro Rapinese told ANSA after the controversy aroused by his 'proposal' to transfer illegal immigrants to Barbagia, a mountainous region of Sardinia.
"I just thought of an under-inhabited part of the country - he added - it was hyperbole to make it clear that in densely inhabited areas these people cause disasters".
Immigration "must be controlled and managed, the parliament takes note - continued Rapinese - my territory has paid very high prices, being a frontier land. Here the facts are known to us, unfortunately the news often recounts episodes of extreme violence. We all remember what it happened with Don Roberto Malgesini ", killed by an immigrant he provided help to aComo in 2020.
" My Municipality can no longer stand it, we spend 4 million and a half for the reception of unaccompanied minors - he continued - no one pays as much as Como. massacred by the cheerful management of immigration: they understand it in Rome ".
Because "they are all good at talking about hospitality", but the Municipality of Como "will have to find more money to cover a phenomenon about which Rome pretends nothing has happened".
The next time, the mayor concluded sharply, "I will propose to transfer them to some mountain peak at 3 thousand meters. Or to Capalbio, a place where they will be welcomed with all honors".
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